[Fillmore]

What is the a good drill bit set to buy today ?
mostly for Concrete and Steel ?

The Bosch ones I see are not that great.

[sagarpadaki]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Is there a local alternative? India has good, industrial strength, adhesive/resin manufacturers, eg Anabond (I love their superglue).

What should I buy? It should be very strong, suitable for deep fill/build-up, fileable... Having a very long shelf life is not so important for the local product.

Have you tried Araldite?

[Aroy]

Originally Posted by Fillmore

What is the a good drill bit set to buy today ?
mostly for Concrete and Steel ?

The Bosh ones I see are not that great.

I have four drilling machines
. 2 x Bosch GSB 10 ~ 2020
. 1 x old Russian 10mm ~ 1975
. 1 x 1/2" Wolf professional ~ 1970

For most small jobs - drilling walls, wood etc the Bosch drill do their job flawlessly, especially in masonry walls with hammer mode.

For really heavy duty jobs - large diameter steel, concrete etc Wolf beats Bosch hollow.

The reason is that the Bosch drill is low/medium duty drill for home use. It is best for light jobs.

On the other hand Wolf is professional machine. It is geared down to ensure loads of torque for heavy duty work.

Now what you buy depends on the type of jobs you expect the drill Drilling machine to do. For most household work Bosch GSB10 would do. If you want more torque the GSB 13. Beyond that for really heavy duty work you need Professional machines. It is just that they cost four to five times more.

https://www.toolworld.in/product.php...h%20SDS%20plus

[sagarpadaki]

Originally Posted by Fillmore

What is the a good drill bit set to buy today ?
mostly for Concrete and Steel ?

The Bosh ones I see are not that great.

Addison drill bits are excellent.

[Sebring]

Loctite is the best glue in the world and you get it in India. Look up their catalog. I was disappointed with JB weld and their claims.

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

What should I buy? It should be very strong, suitable for deep fill/build-up, fileable... Having a very long shelf life is not so important for the local product.

[Gannu_1]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

I'm a big fan of JB Weld epoxy resin.

Try Bondtite. They are from Astral, a company that makes PVC pipes. I use the Fast and Clear variant which sets in a few minutes.

Not a big fan of JB Weld either. Had a few instances when the joint gave up despite preparing the mating surfaces properly. The material was plastic.

All these are essentially 2-part epoxy glues - Araldite, Bondtite, JB Weld, etc.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by sagarpadaki

Have you tried Araldite?

Originally Posted by Gannu_1

Try Bondtite.

Thanks gents. I guess I grew up with Araldite but haven't used it for a long time. I'll see that and Bondtite.

I have had a Bosch drill, domestic type, for around thirty years. It was fine in UK, as it will drill into brickwork (with masonry bits) easily, but it makes hard work of drilling into concrete. I spent a little while thinking about getting a real hammer drill, but...

--- You can tell from the great condition of my drill that it has not seen much use. Nor would a brand new more powerful one. I don't mind buying a rarely-used tool (my wife will tell) but in this case the cost seems disproportionate.

--- The chuck type is for specific drills, and will not accept ordinary round bits.

--- It would be very heavy for odd jobs that don't need the power.

So I turned off GAS mode and thought, more effective to hire one like most of our visiting workers do. A couple of hundred Rs a day, a few times a year.

As for drill bits, I have some lovely ones. They are actually ground, and one can feel the sharpness of the edge. They came from an attack of tool mania on one of my London visits some years ago.

The "Bosch-"branded kit I bought here was pathetically useless. Absolute trash. An insult to metal!

[Motard_Blr]

I inherited two drills. One is a hammer drill and the other is a rotary hammer.

The hammer drill, like most DIY tools, does easy jobs well. But it struggles with drilling hard concrete.

The rotary hammer is this model: https://www.amazon.in/Foster-FHD-2-2...ovement&sr=1-8

It's obviously not high quality but it does a good job of drilling masonry and concrete. Until I got this, I had never used a rotary hammer and this opened my eyes. Drilling masonry is now child's play.

I use it just a few times a year. So for my usage this is adequate. I bought a few good quality SDS drill bits to add more sizes.

An important thing to know is that the SDS drill bit shank needs to lubricated because it slides inside the chuck. The rubber nose cover on the chuck is meant to hold in the grease.

The main reason to choose professional grade tools is if your profession demands the use of tools. So if this drill fails, it's not going to be a big inconvenience or loss to me.

[Thad E Ginathom]

I watched the technician drilling our kitchen wall with a de Walt hammer drill. It went in a easily as my domestic Bosch drills into wood! I took the opportunity to pick it up, and it actually was not very heavy.

The drill in your Amazon link is very low cost compared to Bosch, DeWalt, etc. For light hobby use, it is probably just as good.

But... no, I'm not rushing out to buy. It would get used three or four times a year at most. I'll control my GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). Even though it would be a really nice thing to have.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

I'm a big fan of JB Weld epoxy resin.

It seems that I came a bit late to the party.
There is nothing to beat JBWELD range of products in my experience. The normal epoxy - JBWELD coldweld Steel reinforced epoxy works well only with metal to metal or metal to ceramic or other hard substances.
I have used in fixing things in car. It is as good as welding provided you use it with metals - especially steel.
They have specific products for plastics and high heat putties for exhaust manifolds.

I have tried everything - Araldite etc until I found JBW.

One example: My wooden cutting board was broken in two once. It was an old board we have been using for a generation. So I used JBWELD and glued it. It is still in service after 5 years.

Originally Posted by saket77

This is not expensive, so you can try it once. And may be let us know

Yes - I have tried that as well. One word - pathetic. You can buy 5 pieces of this for the cost of one JBWELD. But its is useless. It keeps breaking. I used it in fixing a broken refrigerator tray. Finally I had to use JBW.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by Prowler

There is nothing to beat JBWELD range of products in my experience.

It has excellent tensile strength: it is very hard to pull apart JBWeld joins. I've seen it shown that that it's sheer strength is not as strong. I think it has some limited flexibility, but much more than superglue which is quite brittle. I have even mended a stone pestle (pestle and mortar) with JBW, which required quite a lot of gap filling and withstands shock loads: it has held for years. Another strength is it's extremely long shelf life. It is fine even after years of storage, unless the tube cap is stuck.

Where I need a putty-type glue, I'm using humble M-seal. It looks terrible, but I have even mended a cracked toilet WC cistern. Water was pouring out the crack. At that time, we had plans to redevelop our house so I did not want to replace. That, at least for this year, has been shelved --- the cistern is still holding water

When it is suitable, I am a huge fan of cyanoacrylate. But I wasn't for a long time, finding that ordinary-shop superglue was often useless: it has to be an industrial brand. I currently use Indian Anabond. One can do amazing things with superglue-plus-sodium-bicarbonate.

[Jeroen]

I’m a huge fan of JB weld. You can see me use it extensively on all kinds of repairs in my fiddl8ng with cars thread. I have used all kinds of glues over the years with mixed results. JB weld does extremely well on almost all materials I have worked on. I have fixed anything with it from lead gutters to plastic metal and different kind of alloys. It is also very useful when there is a need to glue different kind of materials toghether. It dries solid, so if you need a bit of flexibility don’t use JB weld.

A good allrounder in my experience for gluing plastics and rubbers to metal, as I often do on my cars is Bisonkit gel.

I rarely use these so called super glues these dates. I have at least 3-4 of them in my workshop, but in 9 out of 10 times I find JB weld does a better job.

Certain jobs do need special glue, e.g. metal to glass.

Jeroen

[manishalive]

Guys,

Let me enter the discussion on Epoxy compounds. I have had used many types over the years. but will give in general opinion -

1.) The older Araldite was very good when under Ciba-Geigy. Now it is under Pidilite Industries. I do see difference in product characteristics. I feel the locally available Araldite is now more suited for House hardware application.

2.) The M seal is useless product but if you mix mseal and the araldite it makes an interesting combination and worth a try. I have done that and make a very durable surface. certainly good for gap filling or leveling the surface.

3.) I have used JB weld and many other glues the bond strength totally depends on type of material, bonding surface and the glue being used. So different materials will need different glues. And at times even JB weld does not works out like on clear acrylic plastic.

But if you want local copy of JB weld here you go. it is by Ananbond and works almost the same. The price in the link is higher but in stores you would get it for half the price. Also you don't get that easily.


https://www.amazon.in/Enterprise-Pac.../dp/B0D8JSHYTP

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by manishalive

But if you want local copy of JB weld here you go. it is by Ananbond

I am a fan of Anabond, but I didn't even know about that product. Thank you very much, I will order some today, bearing the Amazon cost until another time when I find a stockist.

Anabond factory is, I think, near to me, I discovered one dealer, but it is in a hard-to-park place: one day I will visit.

I usually buy their cyanoacrylate in bottles. With care not to block the spout and replacing the cap, they last quite a long time, but an open bottle inevitable sets solid eventually. When I was in a local hardware shop I noticed some tiny tubes and bought: even if I get only one repair per tube the wastage cost will be low compared to the bottles.

M-seal does have its uses. When it is good enough, it is good enough, and it is sooo cheap!

[sagarpadaki]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

I am a fan of Anabond, but I didn't even know about that product. Thank you very much, I will order some today, bearing the Amazon cost until another time when I find a stockist.

Anabond factory is, I think, near to me, I discovered one dealer, but it is in a hard-to-park place: one day I will visit.

I usually buy their cyanoacrylate in bottles. With care not to block the spout and replacing the cap, they last quite a long time, but an open bottle inevitable sets solid eventually. When I was in a local hardware shop I noticed some tiny tubes and bought: even if I get only one repair per tube the wastage cost will be low compared to the bottles.

M-seal does have its uses. When it is good enough, it is good enough, and it is sooo cheap!

Anabond, Araldite, Araldite Klear, Bondtite are basically the same family of 2 base epoxy adhesives. You will not go wrong with any of them